What if they hiked your pay to make you stay?
Oct 28, 2008
WHEN Daisy gave her employers notice to leave her job, she did not expect the reply she got` – stay, we will give you a promotion and double your pay.
By Harriette Onyalla
WHEN Daisy gave her employers notice to leave her job, she did not expect the reply she got` – stay, we will give you a promotion and double your pay.
Her problem with her job had not been the satisfaction she got from the job. She had loved her previous job. She had some really close ties with some of her colleagues.
But the money was not forthcoming. It was okay when she just began work but most of her friends had progressed to thrice that amount while every year, all they got at their company was a 6% pay rise at the beginning of every financial year, the highest being an 8% increment this last financial year.
The new position which she was going to fill was also quite enviable. She would have jumped at the chance had it been offered just a few days ago. But now she was torn, she was scared both to move and stay.
Claudia Arwako, a Human Resource Specialist says that if one resigned in principle, then they should not go back on their word even if they were offered a salary increment or a promotion.
However, because you now have two offers, she says, you need to weigh issues like long-term career path, whether the organisation you had planned to move to is privately owned, a multinational or public company.
Arwako says as you move on, know that the job will be more challenging. “Go for the national instead of the local, the international instead of the national companies if you are thinking in terms of advancing your career, she says.
Which reminds me of a friend who got a job with a continental health organisation only to receive an offer from UN a week after she had began work. The pay with the UN was slightly less than that offered by the African health body, but we were soon to learn that she left for the UN job.
How established financially and the future prospects of the organisation also matters. An organisation with a good financial base means you can get a better annual pay rise.
Arwako says you should look into opportunities for further training. “If your problem was only money and your employers acknowledge that they need you and can therefore offer you more; then you should take it,†she says.
WHEN Daisy gave her employers notice to leave her job, she did not expect the reply she got` – stay, we will give you a promotion and double your pay.
Her problem with her job had not been the satisfaction she got from the job. She had loved her previous job. She had some really close ties with some of her colleagues.
But the money was not forthcoming. It was okay when she just began work but most of her friends had progressed to thrice that amount while every year, all they got at their company was a 6% pay rise at the beginning of every financial year, the highest being an 8% increment this last financial year.
The new position which she was going to fill was also quite enviable. She would have jumped at the chance had it been offered just a few days ago. But now she was torn, she was scared both to move and stay.
Claudia Arwako, a Human Resource Specialist says that if one resigned in principle, then they should not go back on their word even if they were offered a salary increment or a promotion.
However, because you now have two offers, she says, you need to weigh issues like long-term career path, whether the organisation you had planned to move to is privately owned, a multinational or public company.
Arwako says as you move on, know that the job will be more challenging. “Go for the national instead of the local, the international instead of the national companies if you are thinking in terms of advancing your career, she says.
Which reminds me of a friend who got a job with a continental health organisation only to receive an offer from UN a week after she had began work. The pay with the UN was slightly less than that offered by the African health body, but we were soon to learn that she left for the UN job.
How established financially and the future prospects of the organisation also matters. An organisation with a good financial base means you can get a better annual pay rise.
Arwako says you should look into opportunities for further training. “If your problem was only money and your employers acknowledge that they need you and can therefore offer you more; then you should take it,†she says.